新八下Unit7教案

Unit 7 What's the highest mountain in the world？

Period 1

Teaching goals：

Knowledge goals：Master the important expressions in this unit.

Ability goals：Can understand the topic about the nature and geography.

Moral goals：foster the students′ spirits to love the nature and protect the

environment.

Teaching important and difficult points：

1 .Master the phrases:

in size, 2 meters tall/long/wide, one of the biggest, as far as I know, risk one’s life, challenge oneself, achieve one’s dream，the forest of nature, try to do

sth., ,live up to, prepare …for.., be special to sb., spend some time doing sth., in the future…

2. Master the sentences:

What’s the highest mountain in the world?

How long is Qomolangma?

It’s 8,844.43 meters high. It’s higher than any othe r mountain.

Which is the deepest salt lake in the world?

The Caspian Sea is the deepest of all the salt lake.

Did you know that China is one of the oldest countries in the world?

Yes, I did. It’s much older than the US.

3. Master the usages and the changing rules of the adjectives.

Teaching aids:

A tape recorder

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Presentation

square n. 平方meter n. 米deep adj. 深的desert n. 沙漠population n. 人口

Asia n. 亚洲tour v. n. 旅行tourist n. 旅行wall n. 墙amazing adj. 令人惊奇的ancient adj. 古代的wide adj. 宽的；宽阔的

Step 2 Warming-up

1. Watch the photos and talk about them ―How big/high/long/big is …?’ and

help the students to answer: It’s …meters/kilometers/cm big/high/long/big.

2. Look these photos and practice the dialogue:

e.g. A: How high is Qomolangma?

B: It’s 8,844 meters high.

Step 3( 1a )Match the facts you know.

Practice in pairs using the information in 1a.

Step 4 Listening

1. (1b) sentences.

1) Qomolangma is ______ than any other mountain in the world.

2) The Sahara is ____________ desert in the world.

3) The Caspian Sea is ____________ of all the salt lakes.

4) The Nile is _________ river in the world.

2 .( 2a) Listen and number the facts(1- 4) in the order you hear them.

(2b) Listen again and fill in the blanks in 2a with the numbers in the box.

___ The Yangtze River is about ____ kilometers long and the Yellow River is ___ kilometers long.

___ China has the biggest population in the world. It’s a lot bigger than the population of the US.

___ China is over ___ years old. It has a much longer history than the US. The US is not even ___ years old.

___ China is almost as big as the US, but it is the biggest country in Asia.

Step5 Practice

(1c) Make conversations in pairs.

Examples

A: Did you know that China if one of the oldest countries in the world?

B: Yes, I did. It’s much older than my country.

Step 6 (2d) Read the conversation and answer the questions:

1) Which is the biggest man-made objects in the world？

2) Which is the most famous part of the Ming Great Wall?

Step 7Homework

A: To memorize the important phrases and sentences.

B: to make some dialogues about asking the size of objects.

Period 2

Teaching goals：

Knowledge goals：Master the usages of adjectives skillfully.

Ability goals：Improve the ability of understanding the passage.

Moral goals：foster the students′spirit s to love the nature and protect the

environment.

Teaching important and difficult points：

1 . Master the usages of adjectives skillfully.

2. Improve the ability of understanding the passage.

Teaching aids: